Jesse B. Thomas

Jesse Burgess Thomas (1777-2 May 1853) was a delegate to the US House of Representatives from the Indiana Territory from 22 October 1808 to 3 March 1809 (succeeding Benjamin Parke and preceding Jonathan Jennings) and a US Senator from 3 December 1818 to 3 March 1829 (preceding John McLean). He was a Democratic-Republican and a National Republican.

Biography
Jesse Burgess Thomas was born in Shepherdstown, Virginia in 1777, and the family moved to Kentucky when he was an infant. He served as Speaker of the Indiana Territory House of Representatives from 1805 to 1808 and as a delegate to the US House of Representatives from the Indiana Territory from 1808 to 1809. In 1818, he attended the Illinois constitutional convention, and he served as one of the state's inaugural US Senators from 1818 to 1829. He died in Mount Vernon, Ohio in 1853.